Great Character Actor
Could always count on him to bring life to a character.
shareHe had a superb "Big Valley" as well. Julie Adams played his wife and they kidnapped Victoria and mentally tortured her in order to to sway rice futures. He was weak, Adams was the dominant one. It's a great episode.
share I disagree on all counts. First, I think Townes was the hammiest actor in the business when he was working. This man
couldn't say, "Pass the salt", for instance, without going through some sort of Jekyll and Hyde facial contortion. He
over played everything. I have yet to see a performance from this man where he underplayed. Ever.
As for The Big Valley, "The Emperor of Rice" is actually quite hokey. Even Stanwyck overdoes it here. A cheap and
silly episode.